Description

The MBTI, short for Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, draws up 16 types that each of us can belong to, according to our preferred functions.

For Skeptics

Many dismiss MBTI with unsubstantiated claims. However MBTI and Jungian theories are the most useful tools for seeing how people construct and perceive their world. Check here for more.

The MBTI sorts for type and each type has a specific function order. Additionally, every type uses all four types of functions, Intuition, Sensing, Thinking, and Feeling. Your type however determines the order and attitude of these functions.

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Other Personality Tests

The Enneagram categorises human personality into nine types. It's the work of Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo. While MBTI measures the how we perceive our world and make decisions, Enneagram describes why we do what we do, relating to our innermost motivations, fears and desires. In combination with MBTI enneagram is a potent tool for understanding yourself and others. Enneagram's subreddit is here /r/enneagram.

Socionics was developed primarily by the Lithuanian researcher Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, an economist, sociologist, psychologist. Socionics is quite similar to MBTI but has some slightly difference nuances. It adds focus to intertype relations and analysis of functions. MBTI and Socionics are both derived from Carl Jung, but are slightly different in their presentation.

Socionics types are the same to their MBTI counterparts. However, there is a discrepancy with introverts. If you are for example an INTJ in MBTI, you will be an INTp in socionics.

Ten years ago when I first started taking an interest, I took an MBTI on swirve.com, a now defunct website. While other tests typed me as an ISTP because of my depression at the time and my misunderstanding of the nature of abstraction, the swirve.com test accurately typed me as an ENTP. It did so because it asked hilarious, off-the-wall questions that I couldn't read into, stuff like "Would you rather run naked through a shopping mall or be trapped inside a box with no light?", "Does the thought of a midget and a monkey make you laugh?", and "Does a Friday evening at home with a good book and your cat sound like a good time?"

I believe the personality system is accurate but my biggest complaint with the MBTI has been the lack of a really solid measurement. Does anyone know where that swirve.com test might be archived? Has anyone found a similar test, amusing or otherwise, where they found the questions difficult to read into?

This isn't a 'fun' test, but it's based off of cognitive functions. If you read the directions and take it, it seems to be more accurate than average, because it's based off brain function rather than outward traits - those don't change based on mood. The questions are designed so that you don't understand what it's talking about unless you use the cognitive function it is testing for. And since MBTI is based off of cognitive functions, it determines your type based on the ones you use the most.

It gave me INFP. I can see how that happened, but it definitely isn't correct. Really, the most accurate type analysis is taking a test like this to get the general area, and then reading the ones that are close. Don't trust it until you find something that resonates in you. ENFP all day.